This research is based on a really interesting flood mitigation technique called an engineered breach. The idea is to intentionally detonate certain levees sections during high flood levels to divert some of the floodwater into confined floodplain areas—like irrigation zones—instead of letting it flow toward more critical areas downstream, like cities. Recently, researchers in our lab ran a good number of experiments to track how much the water level reduces after an engineered breach happens instantly. I’m working with the dataset from that study, running explanatory regression analysis to predict water level reductions based on a mix of changing variables. The goal is to understand how effective this technique is and which variables play the biggest role. This includes looking into variable importance, sharing the regression equations, and providing more insight into how engineered breaches can help improve flood mitigation.
This research is based on a really interesting flood mitigation technique called an engineered breach. The idea is to intentionally detonate certain levees sections during high flood levels to divert some of the floodwater into confined floodplain areas—like irrigation zones—instead of letting it flow toward more critical areas downstream, like cities. Recently, researchers in our lab ran a good number of experiments to track how much the water level reduces after an engineered breach happens instantly. I’m working with the dataset from that study, running explanatory regression analysis to predict water level reductions based on a mix of changing variables. The goal is to understand how effective this technique is and which variables play the biggest role. This includes looking into variable importance, sharing the regression equations, and providing more insight into how engineered breaches can help improve flood mitigation.
Kurter, E. C., Nemnem, A. M., Chaudhry, M. H., & Imran, J. (under review). A fragility framework for surface erosion with application to earthen dam breaching.
Kurter, E. C., Goharian, E., Toussaint, E., Baalousha, M., Banerjee, M., Downey, A. R. J., & Imran, J. (in preparation). System-of-systems analysis of flood-borne water contamination.
Kurter, E. C., Al-Hafidh, I. A. I., Calamak, M., & Imran, J. (in preparation). Engineered levee breach: Experimental investigation.
Kurter, E. C., Khan, M. S., Micheli, L., Downey, A. R. J., & Imran, J. (under review). Fragility curves for highway embankment slope stability under extreme rainfall.